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Show 336 Mrs. Mafon & Mrs. Child. You r efer me totl le B1'b l e, from which you quote the favor. t f' shvcholders: 1 h 1te tex o " . our masters with all fear; not on y tot e "Servant~, be subjeC~ to Y the froward."_ 1 P ct0r ii. 18. ood and gentle, but also to . . I g Abolitioni. sts also lI a\, e f:~ t. vorile texts, to some of wbwh 1,, call )'Our attention: . 1 , II b wo"uR ue member those that arc m. b 01l ds , 'a s bound ' v1th t 1cm. - e . xiii. 3. ·a not him that wandcrcth. Let mine " IIidc the ou~cnsts. llTI1 ' ~hou 11 outcasts dwell Wlth th~c. e covert to them from the face of the spoiler." -lsa. xvt. 3 • 4.. t h'~ mast~r the servant which is es- " Thou halt not deliver ~n ° ~Ie shall dwell with thee, where it Caped from his master untolt 1ee.t pre s llim " - D cut. xxiii. 15, 16. ' . '1'1 ha t no op · liketh hun best. lOU h d b in the cause of all such as arc ap- " Open thy m~ut~ for t (~ c~mthy mouth, judge ~ighteou ·Jy, and pointed to de tl uctwn. P d needy"_ Prov. xxxt. 8, 9. plead the cau. c of t.he poorli~~l u > thy ~oicc like a trumpet~ a~d R~~ow m " pCeroyp lnel othuteli, r stpraarnes gnrco.t s,w. n, an1 d the hou se of I srael thc1r sms. - Is;. !viii. 1. . 11 mmend to slaveholders the following I would espccw Y co · •ealed portions of that volume, wherein you say God has IC\ tLc duty of ma tcrs: . n to rour servants that which is ju~t and equal; "!\lasters, gtvc u ) 1\f ter in heaven "_ Col. rv. l. kno"wNieni.tgh tehra bt ey cy ca lcsao llhr< dtvme aa s tel~:., for. .o. ne' is 0y ;ur master, even Christ ; b. tl . , _Matt. xxm. 8, 1 · an"d \aVllh yaets aorccv crt cy cu "~on.ul cl. .t llat men should do unto you, do yc even so unto them." - l\fatt. vu. 12. h chosen to loose the bonds of "Is not this the fast that Ib ~vdc , .1 'to let the oppressed go wickedness, to un d ° th(,· }1cavy ur ,e ns, 1n u.. u 1 · ·· G b k cry ' 'Oke ~ - sa. vm. . 1 fre"e,T ahnedy thhaavte y ge.t vcrcna a bcovy .f.' ~ n. J a 1u u. · lot, and sold a oo -irl for wine, t lat they might drink." - Joclm. 3. . . 1 cth his Maker."- Prov. "He that oppres cth the poor r eproac 1 xiv. 31. . ither oppre ·s the affii~trd. "Rob not the poor, bccau~e he ts poo~; ne 'l the soul of those that For the I.ord will plead the:lr cau e, an pot ·1 1 " llrov xxi 2? 23. . sp0"1 \\t '1oerm u.n t-o hn. n t· h"a ·t ·u • ~e"t" }' l 1u .s , n et. o.,. hbor'.s. service w1thout wages, · 1 1 · t .r h1's work •· - J cr. x.xu. 13. k an"dL ~tevtc th i1m u tmha nt o:; tollOer, steal no m. ore, b ut . tl . let him labor, wor ·- I a ler inO' with his hands."- Eph. iv. 28. . decree •md that write ~~ \roc unto them that decree unng~ltcous . · ' ' 'd , tlw ll "ccly gricvou~ness, wht· (· 11 t 1• cy 1• ave pr c.s cn 1b ed ~·· tlo t tfU·lo nm URtlh ec poor, that from judgment. and to take away t le ng 1 I Mrs. Mafon & Mrs. Child. 337 widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless."Isa. x. 1, 2. "If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or my maid-servant when they contended with me, '"hnt then ~>hall I do when God riscth up? and when ho vi.-;itcth, what shall I answer him?"_ Job xxxi. 13, 14. "Thou hast Rent widows away empty, and the nrms of the fatherless lHIYC been brokC'n . Thcrt'fore snare." arc round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; and. clarknc:;s, that tltou canst not sec." Job xxii. 9, 10, ll. "Jlehold the hire of your lnborcrs, who Jtavc reaped down your field ' , which i' of you kept bark hy fraud, cr icth; and the cries of them '" hich have r cu pcd nrc en tercel in to the car.· of the Lord. Y c have lived in pl ca: urc on the ear th, nncl bc•en wanton; yc have nourished your heart as in a day of slaughter; yc have condemned and killed the just."- .Tames v. 4 . If the appropriaten c~ of tLc e te~ts is not apparent, I will try to make it so, by eYid r nce drawn ent irely fi·01n Soutlu·rn sources. The Aboli tion i:t. are not ·ueh an ignorant rt of fanati cs as you suppo:->e. They know wl1c reof they afTirm. They are f:.un iliar with the laws of the ~lave Stat •s, which arc alone sufncicnt to in. pire abhorrence iu a ny 11Umane heart or reflecting mind uot p 'n·cztcd by the prej udices of education and cu. tom. I mig ht fill many letter~ with ig nificant extracts from your statute books; but I have space only to glance at a few, which indicate the leading features of the system you chcri.-h o tcnaciou!-l]y . The univer~al rule of the Slave Btates is, thu t "the child follows t.hc condition of it~ motlwr." This is an index to many thing·. l\Iarriagcs Le t ween whi te and colored people are forbidden by law; y t a very large number of tl1e ·laves are brown ot· yc1low. \Vhcn Lafayette vi ~it d this country in his old age, he , aid he wa very much st ruck hy th' gr at change in the colon'cl population of Virginia; that in the time of the Revolution nearly all the hou el10ld slaves were black; but when he n 'tu rned to America he found vez·y few of them black. The advertisements in Southern newspapers often descz·ibe runaway slaves that " pa.-s them, elves for white men." Somctizues they are de. cribed as having straight, lig l) t h:}ir, 2~ |